i know there was a lot of heavy rain over the northern parts of asia at the moment and if anything it's going to turn heavy with this weather system here that is putting itself together and gradually edging its way eastwards and it is going to give us a very heavy downpours as we head through monday and choose day so here's that weather on monday then over the eastern parts of russia and the down through the so the policy of japan so for some of us here it will be quite wet they don't choose day that pushes through into other parts of japan say for one shoe and it doesn't fetch the wet day during the day on choose day towards the west though it will be drawing up quite well with so getting to a pleasant 23 degrees it is quite hot though for beijing still at the moment with all maximum temperature getting to around $31.00 before the towards the south of the southeastern parts of china there's not so showers currently but those aggression pushing their way southward so bright a day for most of us on cheese day but not the south coast so that means for hong

kong is likely to be one of the shop showers and expect their shouts to be with this of positive taiwan and over parts of it as well for had noise in looks fairly wet at times and a feather too is a sad lots of showers here particularly over the western parts of borneo and towards the west but even to the north expect want to showers at times on monday and she's day.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera indians are voting in the final phase of national elections wrapping up a 6 week long process around 100000000 people across southern states are eligible to vote in sunday's poll prime minister narendra modi is seeking a 2nd term. iran and saudi arabia say they don't want a war as riyadh ally the united states builds up its military presence in the gulf the leader of iran's revolutionary guard to iran is not pursuing a complex earlier these saudi foreign ministry said the kingdom doesn't want to escalate tensions either but stands ready to defend itself. so dons military rulers

and protest leaders will resume talks later today they were suspended for 72 hours after princess terms were killed earlier this week demonstrators have been continuing their sit in outside the army headquarters demanding the military and over power to civilians. it's been 10 years since the civil war more than 100000 people were killed and many. are still missing the government is paying tribute to the soldiers who died during the conflict with fighters live to rebel fernando's in colombo who was at that ceremony as were saying minal today is the government's official commemoration. that's right today it's very much a military event essential of the 10th anniversary honoring all the police and military personnel that lay down their lives fighting for their country that's how the government puts it and you can see behind me here is the sort of mean military memorial just in front of parliament obviously all the military truck top brass the

police we have the president the prime minister the leader of the opposition the speaker all of them in attendance basically to pay homage and recognize the contribution of all these people here more than $28000.00 people or members of the police and armed forces lost their lives during the 26 year conflict there and you've been spending time with some of the families who lost loved ones there are still demanding justice. that's right daryn i mean in terms of 10 years on since the end of the war still a lot of issues remain unresolved yesterday we had an event to remember those basically killed in terms of the tamil population up in the northeast in military to today is very much the military now here too you have thousands of families on

the military front basically. military widows you have families who are dealing and called being with soldiers who are paralyzed or disabled due to injuries sustained during the war and even on this side of that divide what used to be a divide in the war. huge range of problems many of them still in hospital leading full time around the clock care so and even the family is now glad the war is over here in terms of the military families and that they have their men back home there in our own terminal fernandez thank you for that update from columbus. qatar has reportedly shipped liquefied natural gas supplies to the u.a.e. after a fault in a major pipeline qatar's the world's biggest producer of oil and g.e. . news agency says the dolphin energy run pipeline suffered problems for several days last month but qatar petroleum helped fill the gap by sending supplies by sea

it also helped with repairs the often has continued pumping gas through the emirates spyder 2017 economic blockade on qatar the un is warning for a major humanitarian crisis in somalia which is again in the grip of drought 2000000 somalis are risk of starvation unless they get emergency aid victoria getting the reports. hungary's the mollies arrive daily at this makeshift camp on the outskirts of the capital mogadishu the farms have failed and the animals have died sheltering here is now their best chance of surviving the drought the house the house subcommittee i was a edified left our home and farms because of drug related conditions and conflict off farms were hit badly by the drought thankfully now we live here somalis are leaving rural areas in the 10s of thousands to get food aid in the capital the failure of so-called long rains which usually sweep east africa between march and

may has caused crop failures across the region aid agencies have scaled up efforts but say more support is needed the situation in somalia is very worrying we are just 2 years on from the 27000 drought which had a famine warning to it we were able to avoid famine through working with partners governments civil society the diaspora private sector it really was a collective effort. the new arrivals join 200000000 others already displaced by conflict and passed droughts in somalia with their livelihoods destroyed many of the displaced will continue to stay in camps long after the drought is a victorious gates and be al jazeera to work in a faso where there are concerns about an increase the number of attacks against christians there is still no word on who was behind last sunday's church attack in the country's north the government believes i saw in the greater sahara may be behind its cause an exclusive report from the remote region of double 0 where the

group is expanding its reach. we travel deep into northern brick enough. on the frontline of an expanding war against the group islamic state and the greater sahara. this is diablo a christian town and a muslim region. now living in fear. my girl was running late for last sunday's mass when 20 mouse gunmen stepped in front of him they shot the priest in the head then they randomly selected 5 worshippers killing them one by one while perishers watched. among those killed was by my goes father a devout christian now buried in the church grounds. they were in military fatigue we thought they were the police but then they told women and children to leave and the carnage started and. while no one has claimed responsibility for the

attack the government believes it has the hallmarks of the slavic state in the greater sahara. in april self-styled ice a leader of. the welcome new affiliates from bric enough aso in mali. that since then attacks on the mali burkina faso border have multiplied 4 western hostages were abducted and then freed after a military operation in this area a spanish priest was damp to death and gunmen shot at a christian procession killing worshippers. so has to stand up against these terrorists and we will fight them into violent extremism and intolerance leaves our country. became a faso is a muslim majority country but all of its presidents so far have been christians whilst these 2 face have co-existed and live together peacefully so far the latest

attack seek to stoke religious divisions especially in the north of the country. northern birkenau faso is rich in gold and minerals yet the muslims of the north were mostly full on the herders live in poverty newly formed rebel groups are exploiting old grievances inequality and absence state and religious differences luring young men into what has become a new battleground nicholas hawk al-jazeera northern brick enough. and as well as opposition leader who says he won't have what he calls false negotiations with president nicolas maduro. right around supporters after a meeting between the opposition and government representatives in norway duros says he is trying to build a peaceful agenda to resolve the political and economic crisis.

we have a strategy of people that are mobilized a plan for the country we will not be deceived and the door government will not deceive us they are so weak and insist they want to manipulate talks we went because of an invitation from a friendly country norway let me say clearly to norway the contact group europe the united states the lima group we appreciate all your if it but we have barry clear dura government will not confuse us austria's chancellor sebastian kurtz has called a snap election after his deputy was secretly filmed apparently offering to fix state contracts with an unknown russian woman heinze christian struck says it was a set up the elections are likely in september after both presidents on the chancellor agreed on the timeframe so again though has more. political downfall and a humiliating and political office austria's vice chancellor heinz christian strong have faced the cameras after handing in his resignation but he was adamant that he

was the victim in this scandal to get off duty criminal offense that is present here is this state secret service trap with illegal withholding this. is and then set it off and yes that was a targeted political assassination. i think that it's a scandal that's proved teach for the survival of austria's coalition government just hours after accepting strong his resignation the chancellor sebastian cuts announced snap elections. i believe that the new coalition is currently not possible with anyone the freedom party cannot if the social democrats do not share the substance of my approach and the small parties are too small to really be able to support us in. this is the video that led to his demise recorded secretly at a villa on the spanish island of a beef just months before the 2017 lections in it another senior member of the

freedom party and a woman posing as a russian oligarchs nice wanting to make a $280000000.00 investment that led to talk of funneling funds from the russian national to the freedom party which turned an author of lucrative austrian government contracts. for the election now for the election campaign yes yes. tell me. then you have to translate these are some very wealthy people they pay between 500008 1000000 and a half to 2000000. for the current election. yes however they do not pay to the passerby but when nonprofit association you have to explain not to an association. that this is not going to the court of order to.

the freedom party issued a statement denying it had accepted any funds but a straw has stood down anger erupted outside chancellor kurtz's office many here claiming going into coalition with the far right freedom party in the past sunday diagonal al-jazeera the president of bolivia has launched his reelection campaign for a 4th consecutive term despite opposition cries that it's unconstitutional every last a referendum 3 years ago to extend presidential term limits for libya's 1st. indigenous president's left wing leader is trying to buck the trend of a sweats to right wing politics and south american countries reports. after 13 years in office many believe the ins comp and then bridge time when this was not their president he's credited with lifting tens of thousands out of poverty but giving a voice to women in the poor is getting a fairer price on the international markets they believe is commodities especially

natural gas they don't know the fema brothers i want to tell you why i want 5 more years to finish our great work why 5 more years of evil i want to tell you that we feel strong we have self-confidence and these rallies give us a lot of energy 5 more years to guarantee liberation and once and for all. these supporters were able as he's popped through the nose to continue being the president. is that. the strength is dare in our democracy the strength and depth of our democracy is thanks to president evo morales because the people decide and they will decide in october to start the campaign this meeting will be massive men and women miners transport workers teachers as medical staff and professionals. in this believe 1st indigenous president in a country with indigenous majority he's been an inspiration both here and abroad other must be present in the in my presence here is to accompany my friend

president. to give him strength in the knowledge that the world's 1st indigenous president is here in bolivia yours are but increasing numbers of believe the ends believe model is outstate his welcome they say he's acting unconstitutionally by ignoring a national referendum in 2016 the voted by more than 51 percent to prevent him standing for a 4th consecutive term in office at the. this is embarrassing democratic you can see the. president morales has clearly lost the support of the bolivian people because he's not a man of his word he's lied to the bolivian people and is now using democratic mechanisms to keep himself permanently in power. even with. the tricks campaign and the following year it was overturned by the constitutional court but his opponents say he's undermining believe these hard won democracy both

campaigns of the next 5 months earlier likely to harden their respective positions and al-jazeera boeing has admitted flaws in its 737 max flight simulator software that's used to train pilots after 2 crashes killed 346 people company says that simulators couldn't replicate conditions that contributed to the ethiopian airlines crash in march and the lion air accident off indonesia last october boeing says it's fixed the problem it's also working on software updates for the planes themselves which are grounded worldwide cherice is an aviation analyst and he says boeing still has a long way to go before it can restore confidence with airlines around the public. it has a lot of stakeholders do we know it has to be able to group not only to the f.a.a. but international safety regulators will around the world including. and of course that we has and your confidence because this jet is now

a household name for all of the wrong reasons now you have a period you didn't right now between the manufacturer and the airlines ethiopian airlines have been very active on twitter sharing art schools blaming boeing they feel that the blame shouldn't be on that realignment and that boeing are entirely to blame and to witness that relationship breakdown between a manufacturer and the airline is again somewhat unprecedented but in terms of how boeing have kind of communication wise this just been a case study in the industry the how not to do it oh absolutely everything from donald trump being a boat to the fact that they refused to ground the at craft in the 1st week which led to the rest of the world round themselves it has been one difficulty after another. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour original arrivals iran and saudi arabia say they don't want a war as riyadh's ally the united states builds up its military presence in the

gulf the leader of iran's revolutionary guard says his country is not pursuing a conflict his comments came after the saudi foreign ministry said the kingdom doesn't want to escalate tensions but will respond if iran chooses to engage in conflicts and has called for a 2 emergency summit involving gulf and arab leaders later this month to discuss the situation in the region. of abuse review work you do have a perfume of saudi arabia does not want war in the region and is not seeking it and will do its best to evade it but at the same time if the other party chooses war then we will respond with all strength and determination and will defend itself and its interests of the kingdom helps others to be one. and the iranian regime and its agents to stay away from recklessness and stupid acts and spare the region instability saudi arabia asked the international community to take responsibility to stop that regime from destabilizing the world iraq's oil minister has criticized

u.s. energy giant exxon mobil's decision to evacuate all its foreign stuff from an oil field and as unacceptable and unjustified. and says the decision is not because of security concerns but for political purposes indians are voting in the final phase of national elections wrapping up a 6 week long process around 100000000 people are eligible to vote prime minister narendra modi is seeking a 2nd term so dunn's military ruler is on protest leaders will resume talks later today they were suspended for 72 hours after protesters were killed earlier this week demonstrators have been continuing their sit in outside the army headquarters demanding a return to civilian rule sri lanka's government is paying tribute to the soldiers who died during the decade long civil war it's been 10 years since the conflict with tamil separatist fighters ended 100000 people were killed in the fighting those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story is coming up next stay with us.

the north koreans facing another famine 10000000 are hungry because of the worst drought in 4 decades could the suffering force the north to abandon its been a mistake missile development at least on the rise a she told the donald trump this is inside story. and welcome to the program i'm nick clegg an estimated 2000000 north koreans died

during the famine in the 1990 s. aid workers a calling for international help to prevent history repeating itself us even north korean state media are sounding the alarm the official news agency is reporting the worst drought in 37 years and it blames economic sanctions for making matters with us north koreans are being to fight what's called a war against nature to find new water sources and protect crops the united nations has just reported the lowest harvest in a decade and has warned that millions are going hungry south korea is sending cash to help. so a little country minute here. our government has decided to provide $8000000.00 to international organizations projects to support north korea including the world food program and unicef based on our stance that we continue to humanitarian aid for north korean people political situations well before we move on to our discussion let's take a quick look at the situation in north korea the capital pyongyang should have

received an average of 170 millimeters of rain by may state media say the entire country has recorded only 54 millimeters so far that's the lowest since 982 this year's harvest is expected to suffer the world food programme estimates that at least 40 percent of the 25000000 population suffer food shortages united nations says people are receiving just 300 grams of food rations a day that's home of the government's target the last famine in the 990 s. is thought to have killed up to 2000000 people north korea's government never released an official title. or let's bring in our guest now from augusta in georgia in the united states by skype is hand park a founding director of the center for the study of global issues from beijing we have guitar ball who's advocacy manager for the country cluster support team that's of the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies and by

skype from exeter in the united kingdom is aiden foster carter and honorary senior research fellow in sociology and modern career at leeds university thank you all for joining us guitar ball if i could start with you from the red cross you have people on the ground give us an idea of the scale of the problem in north korea right now well it's not just one 5th year it's one year after the worst year in a decade i mean it really looks really really bad we have people there have been 3 provinces and in the. communities. all i can say now is that it's not getting better they made an assessment and the report will be out next week so unfortunately i can't i can't come in and that yet but it is really bad we see mountain nutrition we see under-nutrition that is chronic and we also might see now the effect that there is no water there is no safe water for for drinking or for

cooking so so what we might be seeing now is also new cases of diarrhea and and decease like that and i understand it's really bad it's round about 40 percent of the population gets through and out of that 40 percent as usual in these situations it's the elderly and the very young who are most at risk yeah it's the children it's the children i mean 20 percent of the of all children under 5 are stunted they are they don't get any near the nutrition they need it's a pregnant women it's the women who are breast feeding the children and it's the elderly so once again those are the most who suffers or those are suffer the most raw is the picture across the whole country or as a specific part of north korea or well that difference it difference but of course there are some provinces that are in worse shape than others. i don't have the full picture of that but what i can say there are differences but but still even though

you're not living in one of those provinces maybe you're used to getting some food from some relatives who live there so so it's a very large deal of the population that can feel this and finally at this stage i know you can't talk specifically about the reports coming out but if things do keep going in this direction do you think we could see a repeat of the terrible terrible events of the 99100 well i think it is it is all right yeah yeah yeah well i think it is already terribly hard to mischa terrible but up but i mean it's not just bad getting worse now it is it is really worse. bordering on alarming i would say that ok well that's the situation is it thanks very much let's bring in john park a obviously you've been to north korea many times if 50 or so times we talked about this event back in the ninety's do you think we're heading in the same direction now to that day that north korea has a serious problem. israel is staggering we don't have to go over that your

question is what can we do. the world around the insula is traditionally do 90 states and china are very crude and rich countries and south korea may also be included here as a potential donors or helpers in disregard for north korea and its salisbury is prepared to do that already for the $8000000.00 but south korea can send rice and their. humanitarian assistance directly across the border and china can do or likewise so i think it is showing or shafilea soon not include the. sanction in due in d.c. equation because political sanction india aereo through again humanitarian

necessity mount to weapons. against the country to very very serious weapon ok to me to think you think that a sanctions a weapon izing the issue of food will come on to the geopolitics more just a moment but enforce a kind of i could bring you in from a store in the u.k. . they say the climate change is to blame for this lack of snow during the winter leaving crops exposed to freezing temperatures as well as prolonged dry spells due to rainfall that's less than than predictable and less predictable to what degree 1st will before going to a port is to what degree can north korea prepare for such events as this and deal with them without outside help. the north korean government could do a great deal more than it to us it could do here's an example we know from the united nations panel of experts set up to monitor sanctions and their impact in the ways in his career voyage them that out of experts claims that in recent years

north korea earned more than half a $1000000000.00 from cycle for oil essentially various i think cryptocurrency is raging back and so on well obviously they shouldn't have done that but that means they have a cash aisle they choose to spend their money differently most countries normal countries from to any degree of calf of their citizens or responsibility to their citizens would it be importing food that if they're not imports from food on any scale if they're not cheap the singer imports as far as we know that's a political choice economics one i wonder where says to give an example of the choices all governments face gums versus bottom it's very literally true in the north korea case so though i have here the see in him temp sympathy for the very long suffering north korean people this government could do what other governments do even before we get on to things that are obviously it's not going to do like to meet their eyes and generally change it spending and they could do a lot more they could also change the way the economic system is organized if i can

briefly mention that sensible communist regimes like china and vietnam long ago 30 years ago a mole gave more responsibility to enterprises to farms to break up collective farms north korea has been tinkering with a bit of that and that because they've got a very difficult situation the soil is exhausted it's a lot of that sort of thing we go into every got much to work with out of the money margins at the best of times but they really you know that they're not doing these things that the regime has brought a culture they put it on themselves because that sounds callous but the regime has focused upon the people in 14 of the people are going to suffer but not the regime said no i'm not front to what degree then does sanctions have an impact on the north and north korea as a country be able to deal with a situation like this. they do and there's no doubt about that i mean the what is happening is there's not what a 10 year history of sanctions and then the beginning at north korea's 1st nuclear test 2006 well that time ago ascensions were confined to its arms trade but in the last 2 or 3 years they got tighter and tighter since the north koreans took

a blind bit of notice any of these i may say unanimous united nations security council sanctions voted for by russia and china as well as other members so they tightened up shit basically a lot of north korea's main exports are now and it's hard for them to import or things like you know oil at the margins and saying it's a date through it as such of course is not affected but things that help the agriculture. from n.g.o.s on the ground and i'm sure you'll read crosspost with there more or you know from from the feel of the night to you there's no way that this can go that this cannot start this too many going to get to it out sanctions certainly don't help so that's a huge pile of all the sickest people and get them from your point of view what are you seeing on the ground in terms of sanctions and the kind of impact that they have been restricting that the nation's ability to carry on. well that's difficult for me to say and as you know red cross we're not about politics we we don't take sides we do the humanitarian work on the ground that is possible for us to do and

we cooperate in doing that we cooperate with the national red cross society and they are all in all the affected areas and so what we do is well to provide civil order pumps needed to to make sure that we can do things on the ground that will that would help here and now and of course we're also just things to improve then or to prepare this for happening by building greenhouses send but you know it's a different scale than than the kill political talk i know that but but i have not a comment on that or ok well i'll take that on with kind of as i can but you know you mention this issue of very question equipment and water problems and to combat the problem the state run. newspaper has called for a war what they describe as a war has been translated as a war against nature mobilizing all available water pumps in there occasion equipment to what degree we come back to the question of how how capable north korea is is capable of dealing with a situation like this to what degree does north korea have this kind of equipment

to hand and how much are outside help does it need. ha i don't i don't know the scale of that but i know that that in 18 it actually helped that we wait till 2 when they were able to provide some some water pump pump for the affected areas right now people are carrying water in water buckets there are in the afternoons and at night and of course having water pumps having fuel for those water pumps having tends to cover them from the heat all these it sounds like small things but that this is actually what will help the crops to grow and the people to move to get feed to get fit but it doesn't solve the whole crisis of course it doesn't but but it it would come a good way so it gives you just one more thing can you tell us about the issue of food rationing in north korea understand that most citizens something like 70 percent live off with that 500 grams of food a day and even that is going to have to now be be cut to 300 grams a day.